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END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20370308T030000 RDATE:20371101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:America/New_York EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a7dce854bdd0c2e4da264d06b5adfe9b CATEGORIES:“Speaking of China” Lecture CREATED:20210120T091823 SUMMARY:Isomorphic or Poly-Ontological Pluralism? A Chinese Puzzle of Religious Diversity (David Palmer, University of Hong Kong) LOCATION:Zoom (registration required) DESCRIPTION:The recording of this talk can be found on our videos page (videos).\nThis talk is jointly sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies and the Department of Religion. It is open to t he public, but registration is required. Click here to register (https://ru tgers.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkce-hrj0jHNwPHJh-S80670sHKJpQLbyX).\n\nAb stract:\nReligious pluralism is generally seen as a value to be cherished, promoted, and even celebrated, at least in liberal societies and cultural c ircles; and its acceptance as a global norm is reflected in the fact that f ew would dare to openly deny it, even when they adhere to effectively anti- pluralist or intolerant ideologies. However, conventional understandings of pluralism inadvertently exclude widespread forms of religious diversity fr om the pluralistic religious field. This presentation will draw on the plur alistic structures of Chinese religion to propose a critical re-examination of conventional Western-derived norms and values of religious pluralism. I will draw on Chinese ethnographic and historical examples to build on the notion of “poly-ontology,” elaborated by the anthropologist Janet Macintosh in her study of religion among the Swahili and Giriama communities of coas tal East Africa (2009; 2019). Here, I use this model to examine how individ uals, groups, and society concurrently act and think within multiple, incom mensurable ontologies, with the choice of identifying with one or many of t hem. This model will be contrasted to both the “isomorphic” nature of conve ntional religious pluralism, which advocates for mutual appreciation betwee n bounded identities and affiliations, and to conceptions of syncretism and hybridity that presuppose the erasing of boundaries and the permanent dilu tion of difference. \nBio:\nDavid A Palmer (Ph.D, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) is a Professor of anthropology jointly appointed by the Hon g Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Sociology of the University of Hong Kong. His award-winning books includ e Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Religion in China (Columbia University Pr ess), The Religious Question in Modern China (University of Chicago Press, co-authored with V. Goossaert), and Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the P redicament of Modern Spirituality (University of Chicago Press, co-authored with E. Siegler). His articles have been published in journals such as Cur rent Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Journal of Asian Studies and Mo dern Asian Studies. His current projects focus on Asian assemblages of scie nce and religion; Daoism among the Lanten Yao ethnic group of northern Laos ; and the religious entanglements of the Belt and Road.\n\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
The recording of this talk can be found on our videos page.
This talk is jointly sponsored by t he Center for Chinese Studies and the Department of Religion. It is open to the public, but registration is required. Click here to register.
Abstract:
Religious plur alism is generally seen as a value to be cherished, promoted, and even cele brated, at least in liberal societies and cultural circles; and its accepta nce as a global norm is reflected in the fact that few would dare to openly deny it, even when they adhere to effectively anti-pluralist or intolerant ideologies. However, conventional understandings of pluralism inadvertentl y exclude widespread forms of religious diversity from the pluralistic reli gious field. This presentation will draw on the pluralistic structures of C hinese religion to propose a critical re-examination of conventional Wester n-derived norms and values of religious pluralism. I will draw on Chinese e thnographic and historical examples to build on the notion of “poly-ontolog y,” elaborated by the anthropologist Janet Macintosh in her study of religi on among the Swahili and Giriama communities of coastal East Africa (2009; 2019). Here, I use this model to examine how individuals, groups, and socie ty concurrently act and think within multiple, incommensurable ontologies, with the choice of identifying with one or many of them. This model will be contrasted to both the “isomorphic” nature of conventional religious plura lism, which advocates for mutual appreciation between bounded identities an d affiliations, and to conceptions of syncretism and hybridity that presupp ose the erasing of boundaries and the permanent dilution of difference.&nbs p;
Bio:
David A Palmer (Ph.D, Ecole Pratique d
es Hautes Etudes, Paris) is a Professor of anthropology jointly appointed b
y the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the De
partment of Sociology of the University of Hong Kong. His award-winning boo
ks include Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Religion in China
(Columbia University Press), The Religious Question in Modern
China (University of Chicago Press, co-authored with V. Goossaer
t), and Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Moder
n Spirituality (University of Chicago Press, co-authored with E.
Siegler). His articles have been published in journals such as
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